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Legal Writing Prof Blog

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Bluebook users: automated citations in Firefox

Posted on November 01, 2008
The Law Librarian Blog recently posted news of a new tool available for Firefox users, CiteGenie. It purportedly can create "Bluebook-formatted pinpoint citations from Westlaw." The post refers readers to an article reviewing CiteGenie by Marc Hershovitz at LLRX...

appointment decisions shaped by teaching experience?

Posted on October 31, 2008
A story by Nina Totenberg on an October 30, 2008, broadcast on NPR examines the influence that Barack Obama's law-school teaching experience might have on his Supreme Court appointments, should he be elected. Totenberg finds a chapter in Obama's book,...

interview with a curmudgeon

Posted on October 31, 2008
You may be familiar with Jones Day attorney Mark Herrmann's book, The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law, published by the ABA. If not, I recommend it; you will be entertained, and you'll gain a useful perspective on the needs of...

save the date for 2009 Rocky Mountain conference

Posted on October 31, 2008
The popular Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference will be held on Friday, March 13 and Saturday, March 14, 2009. Host for this year's event is the Arizona State University Sandra Day O?Connor College of Law in Tempe, Arizona. Plenary speaker...

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to boldly go?

Posted on October 30, 2008
If you were despairing of being the last person in the cosmos who knows what a split infinitive is, you may be interested in reading a recent N.Y. Times Blog post about split infinitives. The comments, too, will reassure you...

nobody knows the tribbles I've seen

Posted on October 30, 2008
Public radio has featured one of our own, Hether MacFarlane (Pacific McGeorge), who responded to a story about the new Google G1 phone. To listen to the story, visit the "Letters" section for the American Public Media program Marketplace, broadcast...

ALWD call for proposals

Posted on October 29, 2008
The upcoming biennial conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) will be held at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 16-18, 2009. The conference theme is "Professionalization of Legal Writing...

AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research

Posted on October 29, 2008
The Association of American Law Schools Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research has published its fall newsletter. Click here, and then click on "current newsletter." Hat tip and thanks to Joan Malmud of the University of Oregon School of...

Codified Canons and the Common Law of Interpretation

Posted on October 29, 2008
Our friend Joe Hodnicki at the Law Librarian Blog advises us about a new article on the canons of statutory construction. He suggests that the article would make a good reading assignment for an advanced legal research class. Here's an...

kudos due in Indy!

Posted on October 28, 2008
Legal writing professors Allison Martin and Ken Chestek have been awarded long-term contracts at Indiana University School of Law ? Indianapolis. In addition, Jim Dimitri (who already had a long-term contract) and Ken Chestek were promoted by vote to full...

proposed changes in ABA Standards

Posted on October 28, 2008
Last week in my law school snail mail box, I received the Syllabus, the newsletter of the ABA's Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Tucked away on page 4, there's an article explaining a proposal to delete...

congratulations to Mary Garvey Algero!

Posted on October 27, 2008
Terry Pollman of UNLV anounces the following news: I am delighted to share the good news that Loyola New Orleans has named Mary Algero the Warren E. Mouledoux Distinguished Professor of Law. Congratulations, Mary, for this well deserved recognition---it's so...

writers block

Posted on October 27, 2008
David Spratt has launched a new, regular column in the Virginia Bar Association News Journal, called the Writer's Block. Most appropriately, his first column explores the problem of writer's block and offers several helpful suggestions for overcoming this maladie...

director opening in Charleston, S.C.

Posted on October 27, 2008
This announcement comes from Professor Sheila Scheuerman: Charleston School of Law invites applications for a tenure-track Director of Legal Research and Writing position, beginning in the 2009 academic year. The Director is responsible for administering the first-year legal writing program,...

new LRW title with international focus

Posted on October 25, 2008
. . Aspen Publishers has announced a new book by Professors Deborah B. McGregor and Cynthia M. Adams of the Indiana University School of Law-Indiananpolis: The International Lawyer's Guide to Legal Analysis and Communication in the United States. Designed for...

Kentucky's Barkley School of Law closing

Posted on October 25, 2008
After only a few months of operation, the for-profit Barkley School of Law in Paducah, KY is filing for bankruptcy and closing, reports the ABA Journal. According to the ABA, the school has only ten students. The ABA story also...

preemption, pre-emption, or pre�mption?

Posted on October 25, 2008
Plain, with a hyphen, or with a diaresis? A post last night on the Volokh Conspiracy got a surprisingly high number of responses. What is the right (or preferred) spelling, and why? Comments welcome. (cmb)

Remembering Stephanie . . . .

Posted on October 23, 2008
As a contributing editor to this blog and a colleague of Stephanie, I want to share some personal thoughts and memories of a truly amazing person, legal writing professor, teacher and friend. First, let me express my heartfelt thanks to...

in memoriam: Stephanie Feldman Aleong

Posted on October 22, 2008
The Legal Writing Prof Blog offers its condolences to the friends, family, students, and colleagues of Professor Stephanie Feldman Aleong, who passed away on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Stephanie was an Assistant Professor at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law...

horrifying cases for All Hallow's Eve

Posted on October 21, 2008
"The Court is faced with the issue of whether [the claims examiner's]October 31, 2003-letter was a Halloween trick to fraudulently induce plaintiff to sign the enclosed general release to settle all his claims against defendant, or a Halloween treat to...

Do Bloggers Need Insurance?

Posted on October 21, 2008
We only say nice things about our colleagues, so WE don't need blogger insurance. But other people might. Click here to read more. I'd tell you who shared this with me, but he might sue me. (mew)

Using Plain Language Will Make You Look Smarter (and More Persuasive)

Posted on October 21, 2008
The (New) Legal Writer has just posted a review of Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive. One of the 50 ways to be persuasive is to use plain language. ?Take, for example, the fact that communicators frequently try...

Aggravated Identity Theft - A Great Issue Right Now for Legal Writing Problems

Posted on October 21, 2008
The Statutory Construction Blog informs us that the U.S. Supreme Court has just granted cert. in a case that will decide whether identity theft requires that you take the identity of a real person. The case is Flores-Figueroa v. United...

links to writing assistance

Posted on October 20, 2008
Do you have a 1L who writes sentences lacking parallel structure? Or a seminar student with a severe case of writer's block? Amherst College's writing resources web pages provide a lot of basic writing advice and links to many other...

Blog Calls for Penn to Upgrade Its Legal Writing Program

Posted on October 19, 2008
Here's a link to a blog that urges Penn Law to invest more into its legal writing program, which is now taught by third year law students. The post on Money Law Blog asks "Why give so much weight to...

more new legal writing scholarship

Posted on October 18, 2008
Thanks to the LSN division of SSRN, and the sponsorship of Legal Writing Abstracts by LWI, below are more abstracts of and links to scholarship of potential interest to legal writing professionals. Some of these you may have heard tell...

a lesson on the passive voice

Posted on October 17, 2008
A law student's blog complains of feedback concerning an alleged instance of passive voice in the student's writing. The student wrote, "This memo addresses the issue of whether [the client's] claim meets the standard of willful detention," to which the...

teaching professionalism through legal writing assignments

Posted on October 17, 2008
Take a look at the new article by Prof. Ben Bratman (Pittsburgh), Toward a Deeper Understanding of Professionalism: Learning to Write and Writing to Learn during the First Two Weeks of Law School, 32 J. Legal Prof. 115 (2008). From...

case dismissed for lack of service . . . on God

Posted on October 17, 2008
A Nebraska state senator has seen his lawsuit against God dismissed for lack of service. Suing the Almighty in September 2007, Senator Ernie Chambers sought a permanent injunction against such acts of God as earthquakes and tornadoes. Although God made...

nailing Jell-O to the wall . . . literally

Posted on October 16, 2008
Maybe it's the political discourse that's bombarding us, maybe it's Justice Roberts's foray into noir fiction, maybe it's the stress levels of 1Ls causing weird vibes around the building, but I seem to be noticing a lot more figurative language...

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